When your xbox's finally break, you'll be singing a different tune trust me.
I got mine 1 month after launch (Dec 2005) and got the 3 rings of death last week (June 2007).
I am very dedicated to electronics so I know how to treat my gadgets.
Google "xbox360" and "failure" or "repair" and you find endless testimonies of people's 360 breaking.
It's not user error at all, it's hardware error plain and simple.
I use to persuade people to purchase xbox, but I will never again recommend such a shitty company producing a faulty system then doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to solve the problem.
They wanted to charge me $140 to "repair it". There are people on their 3rd, 4th, even 7th "repaired" console.
What a joke.